From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86/crash: Fix double list_add nmi_shootdown bug
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 23:43:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220511234332.3654455-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
Fix a double list_add() bug found and debugged by Guilherme, who did all
the hard work. nmi_shootdown_cpus() doesn't play nice with being called
more than once. With the "right" kexec/kdump configuration,
emergency_vmx_disable_all() can be reached after kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus()
(the two users of nmi_shootdown_cpus()).
My solution is to turn the emergency_vmx_disable_all() shootdown into a
nop of sorts, and move the disabling of virtualization into the core
crash_nmi_callback() handler. The only thing emergency_vmx_disable_all()
cares about is disabling VMX/SVM (obviously), and since I can't envision a
use case for an NMI shootdown that doesn't want to disable virtualization,
doing that in the core handler means emergency_vmx_disable_all() only
needs to ensure _a_ shootdown occurs, it doesn't care when that shootdown
happened or what callback was run.
This obviously punts on making nmi_shootdown_cpus() truly multi-caller
friendly, but notifier chains tend to be messy, and it's not obvious to
me what would be the desired/correct behavior for a true multi-shootdown
use case.
Patch 2 is a related bug fix found while exploring ideas for patch 1.
Sean Christopherson (2):
x86/crash: Disable virt in core NMI crash handler to avoid double
list_add
x86/reboot: Disable virtualization in an emergency if SVM is supported
arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 16 +--------
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
base-commit: feb9c5e19e913b53cb536a7aa7c9f20107bb51ec
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2.36.0.512.ge40c2bad7a-goog
next reply other threads:[~2022-05-11 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-11 23:43 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-05-11 23:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/crash: Disable virt in core NMI crash handler to avoid double list_add Sean Christopherson
2022-05-12 9:14 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2022-05-12 10:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-12 14:14 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-12 14:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-12 15:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-11 23:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/reboot: Disable virtualization in an emergency if SVM is supported Sean Christopherson
2022-05-12 8:37 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2022-05-12 10:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-12 14:39 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-12 15:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-13 11:10 ` [PATCH] x86/nmi: Make register_nmi_handler() more robust Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-15 11:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-15 11:39 ` [PATCH V2] " Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-17 7:34 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
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